Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
April 10, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Berra's Blunder, Casey Luskin, Corvette, Darwinists, dinosaurs, engines, evolution, extinction, mammals, paleontologists, Phillip E. Johnson, promissory note, railroad, Royal Society Open Science, steam engine, Tim Berra, University of Kansas}

There Was Berra’s Blunder; Now Lieberman’s Lapse

_{David Coppedge
April 10, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Tim Berra thought evolution was like the diversification and progress seen in Corvette models. Now, another evolutionist makes an analogy for extinction. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
April 9, 2023

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, antiquity, Apostle Paul, Aristotle, atomism, Charles Darwin, Copernican Revolution, evolution, Francisco Ayala, Hippocrates, intelligent design, Lucretius, materialism, Modern Synthesis, natural processes, Neo-Darwinism, Plato, population genetics, Romans, Science and Faith in Dialogue, teleology}

Engineering Principles Explain Biological Systems Better than Evolutionary Theory

_{Brian Miller
April 9, 2023

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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Hippocrates proposed in the late 5th or early 4th century BC a model for heredity and adaptation that Charles Darwin described as nearly identical to his own. Read More ›

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Date
April 8, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, cells, early Earth, evolution, ID the Future, intelligent agency, intelligent design, James Tour, podcast, researchers, Rice University, Science and Faith in Dialogue}

James Tour on Origin-of-Life Dealbreakers

_{Science and Culture
April 8, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Tour doesn’t argue researchers will never be able to design a cell from non-living matter. He does say that if it is achieved, it will be well into the future. Read More ›

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Author
James M. Tour

Date
April 7, 2023

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Life Sciences
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, air, carbohydrates, chemical reactions, chemicals, DNA, earth, first life, homochirality, information processing, information storage, lipids, metabolism, molecules, nanomachines, natural processes, nucleic acids, panspermia, proteins, RNA, sunlight, synthetic chemists, water}

Do Present Proposals on Chemical Evolutionary Mechanisms Point Toward the First Life?

_{James M. Tour
April 7, 2023

Chemistry, Evolution, Life Sciences, Origin of Life

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Abiogenesis is the prebiotic process wherein life, such as a cell, arises from non-living materials such as simple organic compounds. Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
April 6, 2023

Categories
Biology
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Rare Earth
Tagged
, Anthropic Principle, astrobiology, black holes, cosmic fine-tuning, cosmological constant, Frederik van Niekerk, fundamental forces, geophysics, habitability, hydrogen, intelligent design, life, Nico Vorster, physical constants, physicists, Science and Faith in Dialogue, solar system, universe, Weak Anthropic Principle}

Local Fine-Tuning and Habitable Zones

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
April 6, 2023

Biology, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Rare Earth

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In considering fine-tuning, physicists assume that the constants and initial conditions (and possibly the physical laws) could have been different. Read More ›

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Date
April 5, 2023

Categories
Science Education
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, censorship, Charles Darwin, Darwinian theory, Franz Kafka, free speech, ID the Future, National Association for Objectivity in Science, National Science Teaching Association, podcast}

Did the National Science Teaching Association Just Muzzle … Darwin?

_{Science and Culture
April 5, 2023

Science Education, Scientific Freedom

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Herman Bouma warns of what has been described as the “Censorship Industrial Complex,” but he also says he hasn’t given up. Read More ›

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Author
Rob Sheldon

Date
April 5, 2023

Categories
Ecology
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, “consensus science”, Arctic Ocean, Asian elephant, bison, Brave New World, carbon dioxide, CRISPR-Cas9, de-extinction, DNA, elephants, epigenetics, extinction, global warming, Great Lakes, greenhouse gas, Ice Age, marsupials, methane, North America, passenger pigeon, Pleistocene, Pleistocene Park, Sergey Zimov, settled science, Siberia, South Africa, The Atlantic, wooly mammoth}

Pleistocene Park: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

_{Rob Sheldon
April 5, 2023

Ecology, Evolution, Paleontology

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The idea is to recreate some of the DNA from the sequencing of frozen mammoths, and inject it into an Asian elephant egg. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
April 4, 2023

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Epistemology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Physics
Tagged
, Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, Christianity, creator, faith, Francisco Ayala, Frederik van Niekerk, humanity, intellectuals, intelligent design, Judeo-Christian tradition, natural selection, Nico Vorster, NOMA, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Robert Boyle, Science and Faith in Dialogue, soul, William of Ockham, worldview}

Qualified Agreement: How Scientific Discoveries Support Theistic Belief

_{Stephen C. Meyer
April 4, 2023

Biology, Cosmology, Epistemology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics, Physics

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For many intellectuals, a scientifically informed worldview was a materialistic worldview. It is not hard to see why they held this opinion. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 3, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Belgium, civilization, culture, emotions, feelings, females, gender, gender dysphoria, Germany, males, society, thought, transgenderism}

In Belgium, Subjectivity Triumphs Over Biology

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 3, 2023

Bioethics, Biology, Life Sciences

2}

The attitude will metastasize across society and culture, eventually corroding our most fundamental institutions and societal structures. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
April 3, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, ATP synthase, bacterial cell, cells, complexity, DNA, efficiency, evolution, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, evolutionary biologists, humpback whale, Illustra Media, ingenuity, intelligent design, Living Waters, Michael Denton, molecular machines, natural selection, PNAS, proofreading, proteins, Richard Sternberg, salmon, Tim Standish, Uppsala University}

Denton’s “Puzzle of Perfection,” Then and Now

_{David Coppedge
April 3, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The flip side of Darwin’s proposal of natural selection as a designer substitute is that “things look designed — because they are designed.” Read More ›